Small burs and withered leaves retained in winter are some signs of the diseased condition of the tree.
Mr. Littlepage had to have them all gone over and the burs removed.
They were so inclined to fruit during the first season that they would have exhausted themselves if the burshad not been removed.
Gypsy was too busy pulling off her burs to notice this.
The hat is then carefully examined, and all the burs and coarse hairs picked out, after which the smoothing process is performed as before, and the dressing of the hat is complete.
It is so well known, even by the little boys, who pull off the burs to throw and stick upon each other, that I shall spare to write any description of it.
There had Tagri Verdi dreamed one night that his fellow, Burs Bey, would in due time be placed on the throne, and had revealed this to him.
Hereupon Burs Bey was sore afraid; thus he had cast the victorious Captain into prison, and many feared for Tagri that his life would not be spared.
Then, when this prophecy was fulfilled, and Burs Bey was Sultan, Tagri Verdi rose step by step to high honor, and had won many glorious fights as his Sovereign's chief Emir and Captain.
The small, tenacious burs could be easily wrought into interesting shapes.
Burdock burs and brambles clung to the skirt of her merino dress, which exhibited one or two serious rents.
Burs with a very thin husk; spines short, widely branching from a short stem.
Burs medium, slightly flattened on top; spines medium, short, almost sessile, as shown in Fig.
The burs are produced singly, but sometimes several on a twig, and when mature, instead of opening by valves, as in the true chestnut, they break up irregularly.
Burs large, with dense spines, but not as long as those of the Paragon.
For specimens of the nuts, burs and plants of this handsome nut-bearing tree I am indebted to Mr. J.
Burs medium, with rather thick-set and long spines.
Burs large, spines long and strong but not as stout as in some of the closely related varieties.
A spike of burs and leaves of this species are seen in Fig.
Burs thickly covered with sharp, branching spines a half inch long or less, from a fleshy green envelope, becoming hard and somewhat woody; opening by four valves or divisions when mature.
Burs large, round; spines long, branching, but not as coarse as those of Comfort.
Note clustered burs in hybrid--more than twice the number appearing in the mollissima parent.
The burs open during the month of October with or without frost.
The best method of harvesting is to use a long slender pole with a metal hook at the extreme end, and by gently pulling and twisting, remove the burs from the tree.
The burs are so high up as to create difficulties if we intend to anticipate nature and harvest our crop prematurely.
In the course of the controlled pollination work it has often been found that the female flowers drop off in the bag before the burs start to develop.
One of these three is much larger, partaking more in its stature and form of the character of its Chinese parent, and in contrast to the latter, bears burs and nuts in profusion, usually clustered at the ends of the branches.
From two or three to from fifteen to seventeen burs had to be removed from each tree in order to prevent over-taxation.
Stick-tight" Burs Preferred for Pacific Coast+ I disagree, I think, with two of the former speakers in regard to the chestnut that falls free from the bur.
Bur opening, has likewise varied so that at one extreme the nuts drop entirely free from the burs on some trees and at the other extreme the burs drop with the nuts in them and considerable work is required to remove the nuts.
Nuts that drop free from the burs are more subject to injury by drying and require more hand work in gathering.
These have never done well, although one had burs but I found no nuts.
All of the many Chinese seedlings I have, and the few grafted ones, are growing nicely, and quite a number have burs on them when only about belt high to an average man.
So far in 1948, theburs that have fallen to the ground, of course, have no nuts, but whether the burs that are still on the trees have nuts I don't know.
Both males and females soon begin to feed by piercing the burs with their long beaks.
I planted before the war Chinese seed in Kentucky and a good many of those put on burs in the nursery row.
Evidently these full-grown larvae had hatched from eggs deposited several weeks before the burs split.
Because of difficulty in obtaining sufficient burs for bagging, and other orchard conditions, the results of these studies were far from conclusive.
Occasionally adults were hidden among the spines of the burs and were inadvertently enclosed in the bags; therefore, all nuts in bags containing female adults that might have continued ovipositing were discarded.
This year my trees have an excellent crop of burs and show promise of a good average yield on each tree.
Such a bur type prevents exposure of the enclosed nuts to the hot sun while on the tree and reduces injurious drying to a minimum yet permits rapid gathering of the nuts in the burs for later mechanical separation.
On the Zaleski State forest game area, one of these trees, now about 6 feet high, is bearing 21 burs this year.
Last spring, I found several bushels of chestnut burs cached in a sandstone cave in southern Ohio by woodrats.
Burs that have split open and exposed the brown nuts should be knocked from the trees, and all of the nuts on the ground should be gathered up cleanly.
He reports that in southwestern Virginia, burs often begin opening during the third week of August.
They are very prolific and often set burs the same year set out.
I grafted these on Chinese stocks; they set bursand matured nuts the same year grafted.
And some might say, "Those ruder songs Had freshness which the new have lost; To spring the opening leaf belongs, The chestnut-burs await the frost.
Nor these the only gifts she brings; Look where the laboring orchard groans, And yields its beryl-threaded strings For chestnut burs and hemlock cones.
With the burs on his legs and the grass at his heels No dodger behind, his bandannas to share, No constable grumbling, "You must n't walk there!
He showed the boys and girls how well adapted this weed is to make a living, how by means of burs it steals rides, travelling from place to place, dropping a few seeds here and a few there.
The nuts ought to be gathered as soon as the most of the burs have opened.
Trust agreed and the burdock struck some of her burs in his back and said: "Would you just rub yourself against the stile here, inside the field?
Now, in return, you might take some of my seeds to the fields with you," said the burdock; and she broke off some of her many burs and scattered them over the hare.
Trust carried theburs to the field and ran off into the wood.
Last Friday, August 29, I heard of a small chestnut tree in New Jersey that bore a few burs last year and which has a dozen or more this year.
Last Sunday, August 31, I saw a three inch sprout in Connecticut that had had a few burson it.
In August they issue from the ground and seek the trees where they collect around the burs and begin to deposit eggs soon after the nut kernels start to form.
Most of the eggs are deposited directly into the nuts after the burs begin to open.
It was the work of a few minutes, and he was safely perched in a fork of the branches, breaking open the burs with his knife and filling his pockets with the nuts.
Tod could always find the humorous side of things, however, and it seemed that one of the burs he had thrown down had lighted on the bear's nose and stuck there, tickling him.
A large chestnut-tree thick with burs stood near the centre of a small knoll.
I Saw to day Bird of the wood pecker kind which fed on Pine burs its Bill and tale white the wings black every other part of a light brown, and about the Size of a robin.
I observed Pine Burs & Burch Sticks in the Drift wood up white river which Coms in on the L.
If not reset the bed will continue to produce for several years, but the burs will not be so large as from new plants.
The bur, or flower bud, is the part used, and the bursshould be gathered before the blossom part appears.
I was awakened in the morning by the rocking of my cabin and the beating of pine-burs on the roof.
Then the beating begins right merrily, the burs fly in every direction, rolling down the slopes, lodging here and there against rocks and sage-bushes, chased and gathered by the women and children with fine natural gladness.
No one knows what Nature can do in the way of pine-burs until he has seen those of the Sugar Pine.
The breakfast-burs he had cut off had rolled on the gently sloping ground into a clump of ceanothus bushes, but he seemed to know exactly where they were, for he found them at once, apparently without searching for them.
There is another tribe of plants, however, which are sufficiently ornamental to merit a place in the garden, and whose Burs are even more clinging than those of the Burdock.
I could shake them off my coat; these Burs are in my heart.
Nevertheless the unpaid cattle, like every other beast and man, must nolens volens transplant the burs far away from the parent plant to found new colonies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
